List of class-action lawsuits

This page has a list of lawsuits brought as class actions.

## Class action lawsuits

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Lawsuit | Subject of lawsuit | Court of decision | Year of decision

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Alperin v. Vatican Bank | conversion, unjust enrichment, restitution, the right to an accounting, human rights violations and violations of international law | U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
In re American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. Litigation | violations of Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York |
Anderson v. Jackson | demolition of public housing damaged by Hurricane Katrina | United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | 2009
Burnett v. National Association of Realtors | conspiracy among real estate agents to inflate fees paid by home sellers | United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri | 2023
Cobell v. Salazar | Indian trust assets | United States District Court for the District of Columbia | 2009
Collins v. United States | honorable discharge under "Don't ask, don't tell" | United States Court of Federal Claims | 2013
Conant v. McCaffrey | right to recommend medical marijuana | United States district court |
Daniels v. City of New York | racial profiling and unlawful stop and frisk |  |
De Beers Diamonds Antitrust Litigation |  | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey |
Doe v. Chiquita Brands International | funding and arming known terrorist organizations |  |
Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores | discriminating against women in promotions, pay, and job assignments | United States Supreme Court | 2011
Fraley v. Facebook, Inc. | misappropriation of users' names and likenesses | United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
Gonzalez v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores | racial and gender discrimination in employment and marketing |  |
Gratz v. Bollinger | undergraduate affirmative action admissions policy too mechanistic in its use of race as a factor in admissions | Supreme Court of the United States | 2003
Greek Cypriots v. TRNC and HSBC Bank USA | denial of access to land and property | United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
GM Instrument Cluster Settlement | owners of vehicles with faulty instrument clusters receive "special coverage" | U.S. District Court in Seattle | 2008
Hepting v. AT&T | surveillance of telecommunications |  |
James v. Meow Media | video game responsibility for murders |  |
Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. | sexual harassment, abusive language, threats, stalking and intimidation |  |
Jewel v. NSA | surveillance |  | 2010
Lane v. Facebook, Inc. | internet privacy and social media | United States District Court for the Northern District of California | 2010
Luévano v. Campbell | racial bias in written test for employment |  |
Madrigal v. Quilligan | involuntary sterilization |  |
Mauldin v. Wal-Mart Stores | health insurance not covering prescription contraceptives | United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia |
Mochizuki v. United States | forcible kidnapping and imprisonment |  |
Morgan v. Hennigan | racial segregation and school busing |  |
Nasdaq Market Makers Antitrust Litigation | stock market collusion |  |
National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corporation | e-commerce website accessibility |  |
National Organization for Women v. Scheidler | anti-abortion activities | Supreme Court of the United States | 1994
Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation | price fixing and other allegedly anti-competitive trade practices in the credit card industry |  | 2012
Pigford v. Glickman | racial discrimination in its allocation of farm loans and assistance |  | 1999/2010
Price v. Philip Morris, Inc | cigarette company advertising class action led by plaintiff's attorney Stephen Tillery resulted in $10.1 billion judgement[1] | Madison County, Illinois | 2003/2006
Ritalin class action lawsuits | promoting disorder ADHD to increase drug profits |  |
Robbins v. Lower Merion School District | charged schools secretly spied on students through surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home; privacy rights | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | filed 2010
Ruiz v. Estelle | prisoners' rights | United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas | 1979
Scheidler v. National Organization for Women (2003) | anti-abortion activities | Supreme Court of the United States | 2003
Scheidler v. National Organization for Women (2006) | anti-abortion activities | Supreme Court of the United States | 2006
Shell Canada lawsuit | gasoline additive damaging fuel supply systems of cars |  |
Shyamala Rajender v. University of Minnesota | employment discrimination based on sex | United States District Court for the District of Minnesota | 1980
Smiley v. Citibank | limiting credit card late fees and other penalties | Supreme Court of the United States | 1996
Sullivan v. Zebley | Social Security regulation on determining disability for children | Supreme Court of the United States | 1990
Swift v. Zynga | misleading advertising | United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
TNA Entertainment, LLC v. Wittenstein and World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. | use of secret contact information to steal talent |  |
Turkmen v. Ashcroft | unlawful detainment |  |
Vroegh v. Eastman Kodak Company | false advertising, unfair business practices, breach of contract, fraud, deceit and/or misrepresentation |  |
World Jewish Congress lawsuit against Swiss banks | retrieving deposits from dormant bank accounts |  | 2000

## Lawsuits related to class action

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Lawsuit | Subject of lawsuit | Court of decision | Year of decision

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AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion | contracts that exclude class action arbitration | Supreme Court of the United States | 2011
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit | SLUSA preempting state law class action claims | Supreme Court of the United States | 2006
West v. Randall | required parties to class action | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit |

## See also

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### Class action lawyers

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* Kristina Baehr (class action lawyer)
* William Lerach (class action lawyer)
* Tim Misny (class action lawyer)
* David I. Shapiro (class action lawyer)
* Paul Sprenger (lawyer representing employees in class actions)
* Harvey Thomas Strosberg (Canadian class action lawyer)
* Ted Wells (lawyer representing corporations in class actions)

### Class action law firms

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* Center for Class Action Fairness (law firm representing consumers in class actions)
* Edelson McGuire (law firm representing consumers in class actions)

### Other persons involved in class actions

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* William Hohri (class action lead plaintiff)
* Harry Kalven (American jurist, a pioneer in class action)

### Legislation

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* Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act (in the US)
* Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act (in the US)

### Other related topics

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* 2007 pet food recalls#Litigation
* 2008 Canada listeriosis outbreak#Class-action lawsuits
* 2009 Sidekick data loss
* 2009–2011 Toyota vehicle recalls#Litigation
* AOL search data leak#Lawsuits
* Aaron Broussard#Hurricane Katrina lawsuit
* Aeroplan#Class action lawsuit
* Agent Orange#U.S veterans
* Air France Flight 358#Passenger class action
* Airborne (dietary supplement)#Class actions and settlements
* Albany Law School#Controversy
* Algo Centre Mall#Lawsuit
* Amway#Class action settlement
* Apple Inc. litigation#Consumer class actions
* Audi TT#Lawsuits
* Aurora Bank#Lawsuits
* Banning Lyon#Class action lawsuit
* Benson & Hedges#Canadian class action lawsuit
* BigBand Networks#Class action lawsuit
* Billy Sullivan (American football)#Class action lawsuit
* Black Bike Week#Noise limit faces lawsuit
* Black Saturday bushfires#Lawsuits
* Blizzard Entertainment#StarCraft privacy lawsuit
* Bougainville Copper#US lawsuit
* Brazilian hair straightening#Class action lawsuits
* British American Tobacco#Canadian class action lawsuit\
* Brookfield Asset Management#Birch Mountain class action
* Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California#History
* CEMA (record label distributor)#Lawsuit
* California Uninsured Patient Hospital Pricing Litigation
* Cameron Inquiry#Lawsuit
* Chester Upland School District#Class action lawsuit
* Chinese drywall#Lawsuits
* Cineplex Entertainment#Class action lawsuit
* Clayton College of Natural Health#Closure and lawsuit
* Click fraud#Lawsuits
* Criticism of Coca-Cola#Racial discrimination
* Criticism of Facebook#Class action lawsuit[broken anchor]
* Criticism of eBay#eBay Motors class action lawsuit
* Deepwater Horizon litigation
* Denny's#Discrimination
* DirecTV#California class action lawsuit
* Dow Chemical Company#Nuclear weapons
* E18 error#Consumer response and class action
* Ed Fagan#2002 Slavery class action lawsuit
* Education Management Corporation#Securities fraud class action lawsuit dismissal
* Envision EMI, LLC#Lawsuit filed
* EverBank#Lawsuit
* Fastenal#Employee class-action controversy
* Foxtons#Foxtons USA
* Fuqi International#Class action lawsuit
* GM Instrument Cluster Settlement
* Global warming controversy#Litigation
* Google Book Search Settlement Agreement#Lawsuit
* Google Buzz#Legal issues
* Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks#Ground Zero workers' lawsuit
* Hitachi Deskstar#Lawsuit
* Honda Accord (North America eighth generation)#Brake wear class action lawsuit
* Hot Coffee mod#Civil class actions
* Howard Engle#Smoking class action suit
* Intelius#Class action lawsuits
* Japan Tobacco International#Canadian class action lawsuit
* Joe Arpaio#Melendres v. Arpaio racial profiling class-action lawsuit
* Judicial economy#Class action lawsuits
* Kaplan, Inc.#Class-action lawsuit
* Keele Valley Landfill#Resident class action lawsuit
* Kemper Corporation#Class-action lawsuit
* Kids for cash scandal#Victim lawsuits
* Kweku Hanson#Class action lawsuit against Ocwen Federal FSB
* Lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water#Class-action lawsuit
* Long-term effects of benzodiazepines#Class-action lawsuit
* Lowe's#Lawsuits
* MMR vaccine controversy#MMR litigation starts
* Mannatech#Securities Exchange Act class-action lawsuit
* Match.com#Controversy
* McCullom Lake, Illinois#Class action lawsuit
* Medivation#Class action lawsuit
* Mercedes-Benz M156 engine#M156 lawsuit
* Metabolix#Lawsuit
* Money Mart#Lawsuits
* MyLife#Class-action lawsuit
* Myron W. Wentz#Shareholder lawsuit
* NebuAd#Class-action lawsuit
* No Fly List#ACLU lawsuit[broken anchor]
* Oath of Citizenship (Canada)#Public action
* Pacific Seafood#Incidents
* Panera Bread#Lawsuits
* Pefloxacin#Current litigation
* PlayStation 3 system software#Class action suit filed over update 3.0
* PlayStation 3 system software#Class action suits filed over update 3.21
* PlayStation Network outage#Legal action against Sony
* Polybutylene#Class action lawsuits and removal from building code approved usage
* R2C2#Class action lawsuit
* Raytheon#Securities litigation
* Resignation of Shirley Sherrod#Class action lawsuit
* Ringtone#Lawsuits
* RiverCity Motorway#Lawsuit
* Shannon, Quebec#Cancer cluster (in Canada)
* Shell Oil Company#Polybutylene lawsuit
* Singapore Power#Lawsuit
* Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal#New York and California class-action suits
* Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy#Legal action
* System access fee#Class action lawsuit
* Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois#Second class action lawsuit
* Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois#Third class-action lawsuit
* TD Ameritrade#Security breaches
* Tekelec#Shareholder class action lawsuit
* Tenaha, Texas#Class action
* Texas City Disaster#Legal case
* Texas Youth Commission#ACLU lawsuit
* The Brick#Lawsuit
* The Chiari Institute#Lawsuits
* Thomas Jefferson School of Law#2011 class action lawsuit against TJSL
* Thomas M. Cooley Law School#Class action against Cooley
* Three Cups of Tea#Lawsuits
* TracFone Wireless#Class action
* True (dating service)#:0
* Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Representative Office to the United States#Legal action
* Tyrone Hayes#Class action lawsuit
* United Parcel Service#Employment actions
* Vartkes Yeghiayan#Class-action lawsuits
* Volkswagen emissions scandal#Legal and financial repercussions
* White House FBI files controversy#Judicial Watch lawsuit
* WinFixer#Class action lawsuit
* Xbox 360 technical problems#Lawsuit
* YTB International#Lawsuits

## References

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1. ^ Korein Tillery will retry light cigarettes case against Philip Morris, Market Watch, October 25, 2011

## External links

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* Judge certifies Wal-Mart class action - U.S. business- nbcnews.com
* The Coalition For Change, Inc. (C4C) (Listing of racial discrimination class actions in the Federal government)
* Wal-Mart will pay $40m to workers - The Boston Globe (December 3, 2009)
* Mississippi's first class-action lawsuit filed over oil spill - Oil Spill - SunHerald.com (30 April 2010)